This seems pretty important to crowdsource and talk about, so I’m gonna go ahead and risk violating the no politics rule from a few days ago, because I don’t see a better community to ask this. My defense for it not “being politics” is, I’m asking you to keep it to purchasing decisions and how the details of how the tariffs are likely to work, as opposed to who did what. This thread has the potential to save people lots of money if it gets big!

Tariffs are gonna make things more expensive for Americans; what are you planning on buying now instead of later, or stockpiling a little of?

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    4 days ago

    I don’t believe in such consumption unless it is warrant by some sort of real need.

    ie, if you use the product over years and you know you will need it going forward, sure stock pile. but maintaining a stock pile has its own cost.

    Also, using what you got until is fail is a valid strategy too for durable goods, most people don’t do this. We as society literally throwing money away.

    I think one things anyone who has excess should be doing is buying US treasury bills or money markets, it seems people some people are still keeping their cash at boomer banks who won’t give you good rate unless you shop around etc.

    While threat of tariffs is real, I doubt federal government will start fucking peasants outright in already inflationary environment.

    US is food and energy sufficient. Them targeting china made plastic trash sold on Temu and Shein is or a domestic retailers really too, should be fucked tariffed the fuck out. You don’t need this plastic slop, sorry, not sorry.

    Plus US can make all of these products home anyway, since some of these products do have strategic role within society. No joke, when Biden did his state aid package shit like trash bag manufacturing was covered. So US provided free money to corpo parasites to build or expand factories for this. While I don’t support state aid usage, at least this state aid result in more national security and pandemic resilience along with jobs for some peasants in more rural areas.